There are many VR developers in Seattle. Therefore, when the Penny Arcade Expo is held, there are aisles dedicated to VR and augmented reality. Isekai Entertainment was one of the PAX West 2018 exhibitors who displayed the Quest 2 Sword Reverie release. You can watch
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, currently available on Steam Early Access is a single player action RPG in which you are tasked to defend Magnus’ people from a hostile elemental army. Below you will find a video of Sword Reverie. It’s quiet since then. Zhang told me at PAX that this was primarily due to low sales; Sword Reverie wasn’t doing well as a PC VR exclusive, so they’re hoping to find a new audience on Quest.gameplay footageAccording to Zhang, Isekai has spent the last couple of years “building a team that can deliver on the promise of our Kickstarter.” That includes improvements to the game’s skill system, a 3-4 hour single-player campaign, and redesigned enemies. Sword Reverie’s PAX version was based on Quest 2 at the beginning of the game. It threw players into the fray by launching waves of elementals at them. The element of your swords will also influence their abilities, like a short-range nuke or an area-of effect spell. Those skills burn through mana quickly, but mana can be recharged by engaging enemies in melee combat.
There’s still some tweaking left to do with the PAX build, which includes better ways to restore health, but the version I played was easy to grasp with solid mechanics. Some of the skills were herereally
powerful – for example, the water swords let you unleash a high-pressure geyser that stuns anything it hits – but since no two waves of enemies have the same elemental vulnerability, you’re constantly forced to change your approach.
Sword Reverie is coming to the Meta Quest 2 in late 2024 or early 2025, and the early access release is available now on
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